What Do You Actually Own?

1

Your data

Can you export everything your ministry knows, the contacts, donors, students and content, into a file another person could open without buying anything?

Failing looks like: "it's all in the platform." If no → ask the vendor for a full export this month, and open the file yourself.

Your data Yes No Don't know

Where it lives, and in what format

2

Your domain

Do you know who holds the registrar login for your web address, and is that person still on staff?

Failing looks like: a volunteer's old personal Gmail account from 2019. If no → move the registrar account to an organisational email before anything else on this page.

Your domain Yes No Don't know

Registrar, and the name of the person holding the login

3

Your relationships

If your main platform closed tomorrow, could you still reach the people you serve?

Failing looks like: the whole community lives in one account you do not control. Apple removed a Bible app with a million downloads from its China store in a single day in 2021. The ministry had users, downloads and years of work. What it did not have was the shelf. If no → start a second channel you control, even a plain email list.

Your relationships Yes No Don't know

The second channel, if there is one

4

Your right to leave

Could you walk away from every vendor you use and take all of it with you?

Read the small print: a right to walk away carrying a proprietary file nobody can open is not a right to walk away. If no → name the vendor below and find out what an export actually contains.

Your right to leave Yes No Don't know

The vendor you could not leave

5

Your maintenance line

Does your budget have a line for maintaining what you have already built, separate from building new things?

Failing looks like: a build line and no maintenance line. That is not an oversight. It is a decision to abandon something in three years. If no → add the line at the next budget, even if the number is small.

Your maintenance line Yes No Don't know

Who is paid to keep it running

#	Asset	Owned?
1	Data — exportable, open formatCan you export everything your ministry knows into a file another person could open without buying anything?	not answered
2	Domain — registrar login held by current staffDo you know who holds the registrar login for your web address, and is that person still on staff?	not answered
3	Relationships — a channel you controlIf your main platform closed tomorrow, could you still reach the people you serve?	not answered
4	Right to leave — with everythingCould you walk away from every vendor you use and take all of it with you?	not answered
5	Maintenance — a funded lineDoes your budget have a line for maintaining what you have already built, separate from building new things?	not answered